Brigittea Explained

Brigittea is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.^[1]

Species

it contains six species:^[2]

• Brigittea civica (Lucas, 1850) — Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Iran. Introduced to North America
• Brigittea guanchae (Schmidt, 1968) — Canary Is.
• Brigittea innocens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) — Italy, Eastern Mediterranean, Kazakhstan
• Brigittea latens (Fabricius, 1775) — Europe to Central Asia
• Brigittea varians (Spassky, 1952) — Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
• Brigittea vicina (Simon, 1873) — Mediterranean to Central Asia

Notes and References

1. Lehtinen. P. T.. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha.. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 199–468. 4.
2. Web site: Gen. Brigittea Lehtinen, 1967. World Spider Catalog. 2019-03-30. Natural History Museum Bern.